Wes Roberts

...I say yes:

...do you?

...next year for the Rockies?

                 "A baseball game
       is simply a nervous breakdown
           divided into nine innings."

                   ...Earl Wilson

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...at least they DID make it to the World Series...and the team is a young developing team...so, as the olde saying goes, "There's always next year."  Some times there is.  Some times there isn't.  But the team can hold their heads high as the National League Champions.  Thanks for the ride to the finish line!!!  It's been a good one!

...sin:

...from Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation"

...for Saturday...27 Oct '7

...thought-provoking

...weekend pondering for 27-28 Oct '7:

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"I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self."

...Henri Nouwen

...to twist Dickens around for a moment...

...I think it was he who almost said

"Of the creating of blogs there shall be no end...or so it seems."

...however

...at the mid-point of this Wednesday

...I'm struck on a thought, and a couple of questions about who we are following

...that be thee and me when I say "we"

...'tis "amost true:"

One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on.  So he called one of his angels and sent the angel to Earth for a time.

When he returned, he told God; "Yes, it is bad on Earth; 95% are misbehaving and only 5% are not."

God was not pleased.  So He decided to e-mail the 5% who were being good, because He wanted to encourage them...give them a little something to help them keep going.

Do you know what the e-mail said?

...and longing for the calm of a new sunset:

...longing for the calm of a new sunrise:

...one of four cornerstones (corrected):

...what follows, from The Message, is one of four cornerstones of the Holy Text I'll be using at a "retreat of encouragement" this coming Thursday and Friday.